2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 5,238 people earned their degree in animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects, making the major the 177th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 541 animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects in the Great Lakes Region

#1

DePaul University

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$19,760 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s animation, interactive technology, video graphics and special effects degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

DePaul did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at DePaul University are $19,760, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects at DePaul

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics & Special Effects

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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